Striking parallels between the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Donald Trump suggest the American ‘empire’ may be in trouble, writes David Martin ...

China is Trump’s Soviet Union. China is our only global threat, economically and militarily. Trump is using my dad’s playbook ...

Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its ...

The flawed argument about NATO expansion flows from two false premises. One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S.

Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War. Oleg Gordievsky at Buckingham Palace after ...

It’s a mistake to leave out human rights when President Trump’s administration sits down with Iran over its nuclear program.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats ...

His intelligence was subsequently crucial in guiding Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ascent to power helped bring the Cold War to a close.